Forks is located on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula Washington, United States, close to Olympic National Park’s Pacific Ocean beaches and the Hoh River Rain Forest. It is the largest city between Port Angeles and Aberdeen on Highway 101 and the only major centre of commerce between them. The population is 3120 people. It is named after the forks in the nearby Quileute, Bogachiel, Calawah, and Sol Duc rivers.
CLIMATE - Forks, Washington is a good place to live in with its acceptable level of annual temperature change. Average min temperature of Forks, Washington in January is 33.2, average min temperature in July is 52.4. Average precipitation in January is 19.25, in July it is 6.33.
LANDMARK 1 - LA PUSH - La Push above, 12 miles from Forks Washington is home to the Quileute Tribe. According to legend, the tribe was created from wolves by a supernatural transformer. The tribe's lineage stretches back thousands of years to the Ice Age, making them possibly the oldest inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest.
Tribal members built cedar canoes that ranged in size from two-man to ocean-going freight vessels capable of carrying three tons. They ranked second only to the Makah as whalers, and first among all the tribes as sealers. Special woolly-hared dogs were bred, and their hair spun into prized blankets. According to the stories, the Quileutes only kin, the Chimacum, were separated from them by a great flood that swept them to the Quimper Peninsula on the other side of the North Olympic Peninsula, where they were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish Tribe in the 1860s.
First official contacts with the white man occurred in 1855, when the Quileutes signed a treaty with representatives of Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens. A treaty a year latter would have moved them to a reservation in Taholah, but the Quileute territory was so remote it wasn't enforced. In February 1889, an executive order by President Grover Cleveland established a one mile square reservation a LaPush which, at the time, had 252 inhabitants. While villagers were picking hops in Puyallup, the town was destroyed by arson in 1889.
Today, Lapush has ocean front resorts, a seafood company, fish hatchery and a new marina.
Quileute Headquarters and a mini museum are on the old village site. The best time to visit La Push is off-season, when accommodations are readily available, the town is not crowded, and winter storms provide spectacular beachcombing and views.
The Quileute Tribe has recreated its traditional skills and crafts, which are taught at school along with the unique language, which is unrelated to any root language in the world, and one of only five in the world without nasal sounds.
Sitting perched above First Beach in La Push is the La Push Ocean Park and Shoreline Resort, which features motels, townhouses and cabins.
Lonesome Creek, a new store, post office and RV park are open in La Push.
The popular Quileute Days takes place July 17-19 in La Push. The tribal celebration of cultural heritage and modern lifestyle includes a fireworks display, a traditional salmon bake, dancing and songs, a softball tournament, and other field sports, a slo-pitch tournament, a horse show tournament, arts and craft display and food concessions
LA PUSH BEACH
La Push Beach
LANDMARK 2 -
THE TWILIGHT TOUR! home of twilight. One of the main aspects of Forks is of course TWILIGHT. There is a tour that takes you throughout the hole making of twilight and even walk where the actors did! You will get to see the home of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. While you’re there, you can swing by La Push to visit Jacob’s stomping grounds, and swing up to Port Angeles where some exciting moments happened for Bella in Twilight. OUR TOUR STOPS
1) Forks Washington Visitors Center
2) The Cullen House
3) Forks High School
4) Forks Police Station
5) Forks Outfitters
6) Bella Swan's House
7) Forks Community Hospital
8) La Push, First Beach, Quileute Reservation
9) Port Angeles - Gottschalks
10) Port Angeles - Port Book and News
11) Port Angeles - Bella Italia
TWILIGHT BUS TOUR
CULLEN HOUSE
SWAN HOUSE
FORKS WASHINGTON
Forks is located on Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula Washington, United States, close to Olympic National Park’s Pacific Ocean beaches and the Hoh River Rain Forest. It is the largest city between Port Angeles and Aberdeen on Highway 101 and the only major centre of commerce between them. The population is 3120 people. It is named after the forks in the nearby Quileute, Bogachiel, Calawah, and Sol Duc rivers.
CLIMATE -
Forks, Washington is a good place to live in with its acceptable level of annual temperature change. Average min temperature of Forks, Washington in January is 33.2, average min temperature in July is 52.4. Average precipitation in January is 19.25, in July it is 6.33.
LANDMARK 1 -
LA PUSH - La Push above, 12 miles from Forks Washington is home to the Quileute Tribe. According to legend, the tribe was created from wolves by a supernatural transformer. The tribe's lineage stretches back thousands of years to the Ice Age, making them possibly the oldest inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest.
Tribal members built cedar canoes that ranged in size from two-man to ocean-going freight vessels capable of carrying three tons. They ranked second only to the Makah as whalers, and first among all the tribes as sealers. Special woolly-hared dogs were bred, and their hair spun into prized blankets. According to the stories, the Quileutes only kin, the Chimacum, were separated from them by a great flood that swept them to the Quimper Peninsula on the other side of the North Olympic Peninsula, where they were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish Tribe in the 1860s.
First official contacts with the white man occurred in 1855, when the Quileutes signed a treaty with representatives of Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens. A treaty a year latter would have moved them to a reservation in Taholah, but the Quileute territory was so remote it wasn't enforced. In February 1889, an executive order by President Grover Cleveland established a one mile square reservation a LaPush which, at the time, had 252 inhabitants. While villagers were picking hops in Puyallup, the town was destroyed by arson in 1889.
Today, Lapush has ocean front resorts, a seafood company, fish hatchery and a new marina.
Quileute Headquarters and a mini museum are on the old village site. The best time to visit La Push is off-season, when accommodations are readily available, the town is not crowded, and winter storms provide spectacular beachcombing and views.
The Quileute Tribe has recreated its traditional skills and crafts, which are taught at school along with the unique language, which is unrelated to any root language in the world, and one of only five in the world without nasal sounds.
Sitting perched above First Beach in La Push is the La Push Ocean Park and Shoreline Resort, which features motels, townhouses and cabins.
Lonesome Creek, a new store, post office and RV park are open in La Push.
The popular Quileute Days takes place July 17-19 in La Push. The tribal celebration of cultural heritage and modern lifestyle includes a fireworks display, a traditional salmon bake, dancing and songs, a softball tournament, and other field sports, a slo-pitch tournament, a horse show tournament, arts and craft display and food concessions
LA PUSH BEACH
LANDMARK 2 -
THE TWILIGHT TOUR! home of twilight.
One of the main aspects of Forks is of course TWILIGHT. There is a tour that takes you throughout the hole making of twilight and even walk where the actors did! You will get to see the home of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. While you’re there, you can swing by La Push to visit Jacob’s stomping grounds, and swing up to Port Angeles where some exciting moments happened for Bella in Twilight.
OUR TOUR STOPS
1) Forks Washington Visitors Center
2) The Cullen House
3) Forks High School
4) Forks Police Station
5) Forks Outfitters
6) Bella Swan's House
7) Forks Community Hospital
8) La Push, First Beach, Quileute Reservation
9) Port Angeles - Gottschalks
10) Port Angeles - Port Book and News
11) Port Angeles - Bella Italia
TWILIGHT BUS TOUR
CULLEN HOUSE
SWAN HOUSE